marquee player
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Noun[edit]
marquee player (plural marquee players)
- (sports) An outstanding athlete popular with audiences
- 2006, Joe Tiller with Tom Kubat, Tiller: Not Your Average Joe, Champaign, IL: Sports Pub, →ISBN:
- Without a doubt, Brees was a marquee player. Before the season even started 10 or 11 of our games already were designated as television games.
- (sports) A player whose salary is exempt from capping